1st Character... again.

I have yet again redesigned my character and I finally think I am happy with him. The body shape I was always happy with, the little legs, wide shoulders, huge arms and thin waist were all the stereotypical cartoon superhero aspects that I wanted to portray through the big character (being the "perfect" example of the super-villain candidate).

The face was really the thing giving me trouble, my first design was too plain and almost too much like Mr. Incredible, this was not intimidating enough and not able to portray the range of extreme emotions I wanted.

The second was developed (see previous post) and it was a little more unique, but again I felt it was too plain and uninteresting, nothing was really eye catching about him.

This one, which I hope will be my final, was more informed by cartoons such as "Billy and Mandy" and "Cow and Chicken".

I still however need to do the expressions and poses for this character AND design my other characters...

Character One

This is the design of my first character; the big, beefy, intimidating guy.

Of course this is just a rough one, I will be editing some parts (specifically the face)  and adding more detail to make it a little more interesting as at the moment the image is quite flat.

This version of the character was done with the pen tool in Inkscape so it's a very clean finish, I intend the style of the actual animation to look a little more rough around the edges by drawing the frames and live tracing them.

Honestly this character has been giving me ALOT of trouble, I have redesigned him about 5 times now and after each time thought I had him finalised, there is just something (that I can't pinpoint) I am not totally happy with.

A New Year...

...and with this comes a new project; an animation that will be worked on throughout the year.

Already I have a pretty good idea of what exactly my animation will be and what the style of it will be, these however still need to be finalized.

The animation will basically revolve around a Step-by-Step guide on the most important aspects of being a Supervillain/Criminal. Each point will be acted out by two characters who will be significantly different in both looks and personality and the two will be in competition with each other to be the best.

For research I will look at cartoons such as Ren and Stimpy to look at how the two characters bounce off each other as well as obviously researching into styles of characters and animations.

So far I have only one design for one of the characters, he is an almost stereotypical muscular, intimidating criminal, very tall and brooding, the other character that I have yet to design will be the complete opposite.

This time round I have decided to go with a different art style from the type I pursued last year, alot of the stuff I did last year was very simplistc, cute characters, this time I've opted for a more disney, comic book style approach, just really to broaden my styles.

I had a few previous concepts that I had a few character designs for, I doubt I will pursue these, but I will not dispose of them yet.